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TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, a senior police official said on Sunday, with huge waves sweeping away entire coastal villages and devastating the region's main city. Super typhoon Haiyan destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of the area in its path as it tore through Leyte province on Friday, said police chief superintendent Elmer Soria. As rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged villages along the coast, where the death toll is as yet unknown, survivors foraged for food as supplies dwindled or searched for lost loved ones.

MANILA (Reuters) - Annual growth in the Philippines cooled to its lowest in more than a year in the third quarter, and this month's destructive typhoon is set to dim the lights further in one of Asia's fastest growing economies. Growth is expected to slow sharply in the fourth quarter, with the government forecasting that as much as 0.8 percentage point could be shaved off annual GDP in the final months of the year. The economy grew 7.0 percent in July-September from a year earlier, data released by the economic planning agency showed on Thursday, the slowest pace since the second quarter of 2012, and below the 7.3 percent predicted by economists.

(Reuters) - Filipinos across the United States sought word from loved ones in their Pacific island homeland and prayed for missing and displaced family on Sunday in the aftermath of a typhoon that devastated the central Philippines and killed at least 10,000 people. In the San Francisco suburb of Pinole, about 150 Filipino parishioners prayed during mass at Saint Joseph Catholic Church for relatives and friends unaccounted for from typhoon Haiyan, which left more than 600,000 people homeless in the Southeast Asian archipelago.

A storm drenched China's southeast Sunday after killing five people in Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people on the mainland, officials said. Krosa came ashore as a typhoon near China's port city of Wenzhou but weakened and was soon downgraded to a tropical storm, the official Xinhua News Agency said. No deaths or injuries were reported.

South Korean authorities are struggling to contain a large oil spill from a tanker that ran aground off the southern coast Sunday in a typhoon which killed at least 16 people and left 25 missing. More than 30 ships were battling thick fog and high seas to contain the spill from the Cyprus-registered Sea Prince, which left a slick 2 miles long and 60 feet wide. Maritime police said the slick was moving south and was not immediately affecting the coastline.

The Typhoon is designed to blow away any misconceptions you might have about GMC trucks. With its turbocharged, 4.3-liter V-6, the Typhoon can leave a long patch of rubber as it races from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in barely 6.5 seconds. But this is no exotic sports or muscle car. The Typhoon is a truck, or more precisely, the world's fastest production sport-utility vehicle. And it's designed to get you to take another look at General Motors` smallest and least-known division: GMC Truck. Even though it is the only General Motors Corp.

A typhoon that wreaked havoc and death in the Philippines slammed into Japan on Saturday, causing landslides and flooding that killed at least one person and injured two. At least 13 homes were flooded in the Tokyo area, while dozens of others were inundated throughout eastern Japan. An 81-year-old man drowned after plunging into a flooded canal, and two people were injured when they were knocked down by the winds, officials said. National broadcaster NHK said the storm, named Kirogi, had weakened to 56 m.p.h.

When the story of a big-budget Hollywood action thriller goes crazily over the top, it may be because the filmmakers are trying so hard to follow formulas that they lose all control of narrative logic--or because they don't care. But the lavish South Korean action epic "Typhoon," a mega-budget production by Korean standards, owes its tremendously silly story line to the real-life geographical tragedies of the region. Because of that, the story probably connects much more intensely to Korean audiences than it can to Western ones.

It was a strange sight. Young and old, men and women. That in itself, of course, isn't so strange, but what all those people had come to look at was a bit out of the ordinary. They were inspecting trucks. Not Fords or Chevys or Toyotas, but GMC trucks at the Chicago Auto Show. It wasn't too many years ago that the only attention GMC got at the show was when every other exhibit was full and people came to GMC's to sit on the turntables and rest. Not so this year. The activity was such that you thought GMC was Chevy or Ford based on the number of people checking out the merchandise.